See the Law of Deception

Chapter 184 Death Platform [Silence]

The stress level of the sheepskin is comparable to that of the deer that today wanted to fuse with the ghost bone.

It seems that it truly loathes the passenger who turned it into a supernatural prop.

This only made Lu Jinzhao even more curious.

"So how did that person capture you?"

Are you testing me?

A non-existent brain seems to emerge from the sheepskin's fury.

You're trying to test me!

【no way! 】

I'm not going to tell you anything.

"Didn't you say she was dead?"

"You can't even talk about dead people?"

"A stupid, vicious person who is already dead, yet you are so afraid of him that you don't even dare to speak of him?"

Lu Jinzhao confused the concepts; she thought that Yangpi's alertness was temporary, while his poor mental state was permanent.

Sure enough, as soon as she said that, Yangpi immediately forgot his earlier vigilance.

【I dare not?!】

I'm just disgusted!

A ghost here is stating with absolute certainty that it feels ashamed of a human being.

Lu Jinzhao thought Yangpi was completely insane.

However, it has never worked properly.

Even so, it didn't reveal anything useful.

It was just a frantic, vicious curse, like a powerless voodoo doll.

"How long has she been dead?"

Lu Jinzhao had no patience to listen to these endless curses, so he asked directly.

The sheepskin, who was in the middle of a scathing rant, paused for a moment, then asked somewhat displeasedly.

Why should I tell you?

"what is her name?"

How do I know?

The sheepskin's subconscious reply.

After replying, I realized something and quickly tried to correct it:

Why would I care about such a trivial matter?

[A disgusting human name!]

"Ha." Lu Jinzhao deliberately let out a short laugh: "What are you pretending for?"

She bluntly exposed him: "So you don't even know the name of the person who did this to you?"

"You're so useless."

Am I useless?

【Am I useless?!】

This sentence seemed to greatly anger Yangpi, causing it to fall into a state of near-paranoia. It kept repeating these three words, the bright red words occupying Lu Jinzhao's vision, on the table, the walls, and the floor, all of which were being repeated endlessly.

How could I be useless?

Finally, it seemed to calm down.

You have no idea how powerful I am.

No matter how you compare humans, I am stronger.

It fell silent, seemingly wanting to start a cold war unilaterally again, but Lu Jinzhao only needed one sentence to break its aloofness that it had maintained for less than a minute.

"Oh, you're very powerful. So you said so definitively that I was going to die, how come I'm still alive?"

"Huh? That's strange, how did I get out alive again?"

The tone was extremely sarcastic.

They've been provoking us all along.

【.】

The brain, which doesn't have sheepskin, is in trouble.

What do you know?

It decided to throw out that sentence first.

If it weren't for me, you would be dead long ago!

Yes, that's it. You think you're still alive and well because of me, you know?

The more it was said, the more certain it became.

"...It's all because of you?"

What if it's not the same?

Sheepskin felt he hadn't said anything wrong.

You have no idea what you've done.

It started pointing and gesturing.

"If it weren't for me, you would definitely have been possessed by that ghost and turned into a corpse at its mercy!"

You have no idea how important the role I played.

If you knew how to be grateful, you should offer me a third of your soul right now.

It became increasingly shameless as it spoke.

"Wait a minute," Lu Jinzhao interrupted it.

"So you mean, you didn't want me to die, so you helped me?"

Sheep Skin disgusted her with shameless words, so she had to disgust her back.

【? 】

What's wrong with you?

【I don't want you to die???】

[I'll help you???]

【nausea!!】

Very good, the goal has been achieved.

Lu Jinzhao ignored Yangpi and began a one-sided cold war.

Feeling utterly disgusted, the sheepskin was stuck in an awkward position. It frantically called out to Lu Jinzhao, trying to clarify that it had no such disgusting thoughts at all, but Lu Jinzhao completely ignored it.

As for the blood-red phantoms that appeared before us, they were semi-transparent anyway, so we could just ignore them.

She already has a wealth of experience in this area.

Without taking a break, she immediately began making shadow puppets.

She still needed to process the skin she had just peeled off, but the ghost's skin was convenient, as she could skip the skin-processing step. However, she couldn't start using Tan Meng's skin right now.

After her destiny level was upgraded, her shadow puppet making speed also increased. In just one day, she had already made a shadow puppet of Du Yu.

After finishing, Lu Jinzhao felt a wave of fatigue wash over her; she couldn't continue and needed to rest. After thinking for a moment, she sent a message to Lin Lin, arranging to meet the next day.

Although she had received a lot of information about the Death Platform from the fortune teller, she was not really familiar with him. Lin Lin, on the other hand, was someone she could talk to with freely.

Lu Jinzhao slept for nearly ten hours, a rare treat. When she woke up, the slight headache she had been feeling from making shadow puppets all night had dissipated. On her phone, Lin Lin had sent a message half an hour earlier saying that he had boarded the plane.

After calculating that it was about time, Lu Jinzhao quickly washed up and got into the car heading to the airport.

She rarely visits Yuncheng Airport compared to Yuncheng Railway Station.

The airport was just as crowded as the train station. Not long after Lu Jinzhao arrived by car, Lin Lin's plane also landed.

The moment Lin Lin saw Lu Jinzhao standing outside to greet her, she immediately ran towards her and hugged her tightly.

Lu Jinzhao was somewhat surprised, but still reached out and hugged her back.

Lin Lin took a deep breath, then released Lu Jinzhao and explained, "I thought I would never see you again."

This statement doesn't imply that Lu Jinzhao will die on the platform, but rather that she herself almost didn't make it back.

In fact, because of the platform incident, her family has not contacted her for a long time.

Even when she went home on her own initiative, her family's emotions were quite indifferent, which once made Lin Lin feel pain.

One of the reasons why many passengers go crazy is that they "lose their sense of reality." They doubt what the point is of continuing to persevere and struggle to live.
Even though she almost died on the platform, her family no longer cared about her, and she had no one to confide in about her fears. Is there really such a big difference between being dead and being alive?
Even if you become friends with a passenger, that person might suddenly die on the next mission, causing even more suffering.

But now, Lu Jinzhao has also become a passenger. Lu Jinzhao will no longer ignore her or forget her. Lu Jinzhao is very smart. Even as a passenger, she will not die easily.

"What's wrong? Did something happen?"

Lu Jinzhao also caught up with her emotions very well.

Yes, that's always been the case. He's incredibly intelligent, adept at observing every little detail around him, and treats different people differently. Lin Lin always gets the best of everything.

"It's because of the Death Platform."

Since Lu Jinzhao was also involved, Lin Lin no longer intended to hide anything from her.

"I've been gone for so long, you should be able to guess what I've been doing."

The two walked out while talking. Because of their low profile, people around them would naturally ignore what they were saying unless they took the initiative to talk to them. However, when it came to the topic of trains, even if they took the initiative to talk to ordinary people, the other person would just think they were talking nonsense.

This is the power of "rules." No matter how much evidence you present, in the other party's perception, you are just going crazy and acting recklessly.

"The Death Platform." Lin Lin's voice still trembled as she said those words: "It was truly terrifying."

What did you encounter inside?

Lu Jinzhao wanted to know more, including what happened at different death platforms, to gain more experience for herself.

"The death platform I entered was called 'Silence,' which is easy to understand, right?"

"The waiting information is also provided quite clearly."

Shh, keep quiet, it's coming.

"The last time I came to Yuncheng was because Yuncheng was selected for two Level 1 positions, and I was the only one at the Capital Station. Since I have a close relationship with Yuncheng, we discussed having a meeting to figure out how to team up and cooperate once we got in."

"On the surface, the taboo of this death platform is actually very clear: keep silent, don't make a sound, don't speak."

As they talked, the two got into a car that was waiting in the parking lot and drove towards Lu Jinzhao's house.

"We did the same after we entered the platform, and tried to communicate using sign language and written language as much as possible."

"When we entered, the surroundings were desolate. Based on the memories transmitted by the train, we obtained the background information. The place we arrived at was a city that had long been abandoned. Because of its invasion, many residents died, and those who were still alive moved away from here."

"We need to survive in this abandoned city."

"At first, we were terrified and stayed put, afraid to move around too much."

"But soon we found that in this city, our hunger would increase, our emotions would become more acute, irritable, and easily startled. With the increase in hunger, this loss of emotional control would become more obvious, and we would even be unable to control the urge to scream."

At this point, Lin Lin's tone turned gloomy.

"This means we have to go out and find food."

"In the process of searching for food, someone inevitably makes noise. Even if the noise is not made by her, she is targeted by the ghost because she made it."

"She's dead."

"After that, we had to be even more careful."

"But soon, another bad thing was discovered: when we ate the food here, we would feel sleepy for an hour. If we didn't sleep, the sleepiness would cause us to hallucinate and make noises involuntarily."

"And this sleep will last at least four hours."

"After four hours, we'll start to feel hungry again!"

As Lu Jinzhao listened, his brows furrowed.

She already felt the situation was getting difficult just getting here, but her intuition told her that this was not the end, and there must be some more desperate, malicious rules to come.

"The constant stream of missions prevents us from staying in a relatively familiar place. We must keep moving to the next location, and in the process, we are constantly losing personnel."

"For the first half of the month, everyone was trying their best to encourage each other and find a way to survive."

"After a month, everyone was disheveled and exhausted."

“In a month and a half, some people developed psychological problems. The sound of their companions’ footsteps would make them mentally sensitive, and the sound of their fingers touching a package would make them feel like they were about to die.”

In the silent city, where silence must be maintained, negative emotions are deliberately amplified, and hunger and fatigue invade. Even first-class passengers cannot maintain a healthy mental state in such an environment for long.

If it were only a few hours or even a few days, this platform wouldn't be so unbearable.

Ke Lu remembers how long this platform lasted, a length that surprised even some people on the forum.

This was nothing short of a prolonged mental ordeal.

"I'm lucky, though. My destiny is just right for this platform," Lin Lin said, a bitter smile of relief on his face.

Silence is her destiny.

In Lu Jinzhao's memory, she was a lively and charming girl, a talkative childhood friend. She was usually the one who did most of the talking, while Lu Jinzhao spoke very little.

But in the minds of everyone at the Capital Station, she was a rather silent person, even a bit too cold.

She was granted a degree of immunity simply by remaining silent.

This is a powerful destiny; she only needs to remain silent and isolate herself for a long time to live even longer.

Whether it was hunger or hallucinations, they would affect her, but compared to the other passengers on the platform, the impact on her was undoubtedly much smaller.

Even so, she still almost died on the platform. This was not only because her fate was not strong enough compared to the ghosts of the Death Platform, but also because they made a despairing discovery at the end.

"When the countdown started, we knew that if we held on, we could leave alive."

"But everything was fine until the last day, the very last day. Even though nothing had happened, the people around me were dying one by one."

"Finally, we came to a conclusion that was utterly devastating."

"Keeping silent means not making a sound, not even the slightest noise, otherwise it would be a violation of the ghost's taboo."

"And those sounds included heartbeats, breathing, and the sound of blood flowing."

Anyone who is alive has already broken a taboo the moment they step onto this platform.

"Then what's the way out?" Lu Jinzhao asked.

If you break taboos as soon as you enter the platform, where is your way out?
Mentioning this made Lin Lin's expression even worse.

"The path to survival at the death platform is not open to everyone."

She said slowly, "The rules have changed here. Not everyone can use this path to survive. This path is only available to a few."

"The only advantage for passengers on this platform is that the ghosts only wreak havoc on the last day; before that, it's mostly torture."

"On the last day, it will start killing from the people who make the loudest noise, even the sound of breathing."

"But its killing speed is limited."

"This is the way out."

A road that encourages passengers to kill each other and harm others in order to survive.

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